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Tiangong-1 launch betrays China's earthly ambitions
The successful launch of the Tiangong-1 space station by China is an event of huge geopolitical significance,just as the orbiting of China's first astronaut was in 2003.
It can be argued that China's achievements,though impressive,only demonstrate how far China lags behind Russia and the US.
Russia after all launched its first cosmonaut in 1961 and its first space station in 1971.The US achieved these landmarks in 1961 and 1973,and,at just over eight tonnes,Tiangong-1 is smaller than the American Skylab station launched in 1973.
But to focus on the 40-year gap is to ignore what lies behind China's space programme,and the Chinese governments' determination to achieve a series of dramatic space objectives that will confirm the country's status as a new superpower.
The space programme also offers clues to the thinking behind China's long-term foreign policy goals and its strategic logic.
Reaching for the stars
Tiangong forms just one part of a much broader Chinese space exploration programme.
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Chinese acquisition of new technologies is not just for their intrinsic value,but because the leadership see them as symbols that distinguish great powers from their competitors ”
End Quote In 2007 China put the Chang-e 1 satellite into orbit around the Moon.It surveyed the Moon for two years before being deliberately crashed into the lunar surface in March 2009 as part of China's research into developing a robotic craft to return lunar samples,a mission likely to take place around 2014.
In 2017 China is due to land a lunar rover and there are longer term plans for a manned lunar base.In 2013 Yinghuo-1,a joint Chinese-Russian robot probe to Mars,will be launched.
The manned space programme is crucial to achieving China's long-term political goals.
The successful orbiting of a "taikonaut" (Chinese astronaut) in 2003 was a dramatic assertion of China's rise.China became only the third country in history to orbit one of its own astronauts using a domestic launch technology.
China plans to orbit its own 60-tonne space station by 2020 and the purpose of the series of smaller Tiangong stations is to develop expertise in docking manoeuvres and longer term human spaceflight.
The Tiangong-1 is an essential step toward the goal of building a space station.