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.
The South Korean government is likely to approve development soon of its second space launcher, the KSLV-2, which would take the country from experimentation to serious participation in the international launch services market. Korean Air Aerospace, the manufacturing division of the airline Korean Air, is studying a follow-up to the KSLV-2 with a company-developed rocket in the same class, or maybe a commercial version of the government launcher.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Daejeon, South Korea), Bradley Perrett (Daejeon, South Korea)
Previously circumspect, Chinese space officials are out front now about their interest in sending their astronauts to the Moon on their own, even as they worked the halls of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here to establish closer outside links for human-spaceflight cooperation.
DAEJEON, South Korea — China is laying the groundwork to land astronauts on the moon, which would follow an ambitious lunar robotic precursor program that also could pave the way for the country’s first unmanned probe to Mars. Dong Nengli of the China Manned Space Engineering Program says his organization — which developed the Shenzhou human spacecraft and is planning an unpiloted orbital rendezvous and docking experiment in 2011 — is already looking beyond the planned deployment of a 60-ton Chinese space station in 2020.
