【Main Contents】

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 A Brief History of the Launch Technology
1.2 Development of Electric Launch
1.3 The Prospects and Challenges of Electric Launch
1.4 Classification of Electric Launchers
Chapter 2 Rail Launch
2.1 Simple Rail Launcher
2.2 Tie Distributed Feed Power Rail Launcher
2.3 Segmented Rail Launcher
2.4 Rail Launcher with Augmentation in Series
2.5 An Augmented Type by External Magnetic Field
2.6 Muzzle Shunt Rail Launcher
2.7 Multi-rail Rail Launchers
2.8 Discrete Electrodes Rail Launchers
2.9 Coaxial Rail Launcher
2.10 Polyphase Rail Launchers
2.11 Rail Launcher with Feed-forward Source
Chapter 3 Coil Launch
3.1 Theoretical Basis of Coil Launcher
3.2 The Brush Commutation Spiral Coil Launcher
3.3 The Brushless Spiral Coil Launcher
3.4 The Direct-current-armature Discrete Driving Coil Launcher
3.5 Single-stage Pulesd Inductive Coil Launchers
3.6 Synchronous Induction Coil Launcher
3.7 θ-coil Launcher
3.8 Asynchronous Induction Coil Launcher
3.9 Magnetized Projectile Traveling Wave Coil Launcher
3.10 Reluctance Coil Launcher
Chapter 4 Reconnection Launch
4.1 General Description
4.2 Reconnection Launcher with the Plate Projctile and Dual Coil
4.3 Reconnection Launcher with Cylindrical Projectile
4.4 Single-Coil-Plate Projectile Reconnection Launcher
Chapter 5 Electrothermal Launch
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Thin Tube Electrothermal Launcher
5.3 The Plasma-cartridge Electrothermal Launcher
5.4 Plasma Pinch ET Launchers
5.5 ET Launchers with Exploding Conductor
5.6 Eletron Beam Electrothermal Launcher
5.7 ET Launchers with Traveling Electrode
5.8 Powder-chamber Discharging ET Launchers
5.9 Typical Solid Propellant Electrothermal Chemical Launcher
5.10 Typical Liquid Propellant Electrothermal Chemical Launcher
Chapter 6 Typical Hybrid Launch
6.1 Electrothermal-Rail Launchers
6.2 Rail-Coil Launchers
6.3 Gun-Electric Launchers
6.4 Chemical Energy-Electric Launcher
6.5 Electromagetic-Rocket Launcher
References