Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Cathay Pacific will sell its 15% stake in Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company (HAECO) to parent Swire Pacific and use the proceeds to develop its core aviation business. The transaction is valued at HK$2.6 billion ($333 million), and Cathay Pacific will earn a profit of about HK$1.8 billion. The money will be used to support the airline's core business, including investments in aircraft, products and services, as well as a new HK$5.5 billion cargo terminal being built at Hong Kong International Airport.
ANOTHER TRY: South Korea plans to make a second attempt at launching a satellite on June 9, almost 10 months after its first launch failed. The rocket is again a KSLV-1, and it should be the last launch of that model, which has been a technology demonstrator. A larger rocket, the KSLV-2, is planned. The KSLV-1 uses a Russian first stage and a South Korean upper stage. The KSLV-2 should have much greater South Korean technology content and be able to place 1.5 tons in low Earth orbit.
BEIJING — A Long March 3C rocket launched the fourth satellite in China’s Compass positioning system on June 2. When complete, the system should have 35 satellites, 10 of which were due to be launched in 2009 and 2010. A Long March 3C was also used in January to launch the third Compass satellite, one of five to be placed in geostationary orbit. Low Earth orbit Compass satellites have been launched by Long March 3As. The first was sent up in 2007, though two experimental spacecraft were put into orbit in 2000.
