Convair

Flight record

These are launches under Convair’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, Convair is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

No scheduled flight names Convair with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About Convair

Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953 it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history.

Upcoming launches

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

Convair in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Common questions

How many launches has Convair flown?

Convair has flown 1 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 0 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.

What is Convair's success rate?

100.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 1 attempts. Its last 1 launches in a row have succeeded.

When is Convair's next launch?

Convair has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.

Does Convair fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?

Convair has flown 1 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.

Where is Convair based?

United States of America. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 1943.