| Astro Orbiter | |
|---|---|
 Astro Orbitor at Disneyland | |
| Magic Kingdom | |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 28°25′06″N 81°34′45″W / 28.4184°N 81.57916°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | November 28, 1974 (as Star Jets) April 30, 1994 (as Astro Orbiter) |
| Closing date | January 10, 1994 (as Star Jets) |
| Tokyo Disneyland | |
| Name | Star Jets |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 35°37′53″N 139°52′47″E / 35.6313°N 139.8796°E |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | April 15, 1983[1] |
| Closing date | October 10, 2017 |
| Replaced by | The Happy Ride with Baymax |
| Disneyland Park (Paris) | |
| Name | Orbitron |
| Area | Discoveryland |
| Coordinates | 48°52′25″N 2°46′42″E / 48.8736°N 2.7784°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 12, 1992 |
| Disneyland | |
| Name | Astro Orbitor |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 33°48′44″N 117°55′06″W / 33.8121°N 117.9183°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | May 22, 1998 |
| Replaced | Rocket Jets |
| Hong Kong Disneyland | |
| Name | Orbitron |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 22°18′49″N 114°02′30″E / 22.3136°N 114.0418°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | September 12, 2005 |
| Shanghai Disneyland | |
| Name | Jet Packs |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 31°08′38″N 121°39′16″E / 31.14375°N 121.65439°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Soft opening date | May 7, 2016 |
| Opening date | June 16, 2016 |
| Ride statistics | |
| Attraction type | Aerial carousel |
| Designer | WED Enterprises/Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Vehicle type | Rockets (all except Hong Kong Disneyland) Flying saucers (Hong Kong Disneyland) |
| Vehicles | 12 16 (Hong Kong Disneyland) |
| Riders per vehicle | 2 (all except Hong Kong Disneyland) 4 (Hong Kong Disneyland) |
| Rows | 2 (Hong Kong Disneyland) |
| Duration | 1:30 |
 Must transfer from wheelchair | |
The Astro Orbiter is a "rocket-spinner", aerial carousel-type attraction featured at five Disneyland-style parks and Walt Disney Resorts around the world, except for Tokyo Disneyland. Although each ride may have a slightly different name, all share the same experience of vehicles traveling through space, spinning around a central monument. In most forms of the ride, the use of a joystick (or steering wheel, buttons, etc.) enables guests to adjust the height of their individual cars at will, usually within a range of no more than 10-15 feet. When the ride cycle comes to its completion, any ascended vehicles are automatically lowered for passenger exit and re-boarding. Over the years, with each new iteration of the ride debuting, new designs, thematic schemes, and locations have been implemented to fit with the changing themes of several Tomorrowlands.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ "Tokyo Disney announces five new attractions".
- ^ Disneyland Updates Its Vision Of Tomorrowland. Lakeland Ledger. 1998.
- ^ Updating a vision for a new tomorrow. Kentucky. 1998.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Caselnova, Anthony (2015). Disney By The Numbers. Theme Park Press. ISBN 9781941500606.
- ^ Murphy, J (2021). The Florida Project. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9781477324066.