 Chinese television broadcast the launch animation accompanied by an instrumental version of the American patriotic song "America the Beautiful", a choice of music for which it later offered no explanation.On 30 September 2011, Tiangong-1 completed the second of two orbital transfer maneuvers, reaching an apogee altitude of  .This was the precursor to a week-long program of orbital testing, conducted from the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center, to prepare the module for future orbital docking operations.