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.
China’s state space-launcher industry is turning to private enterprise for propulsion technology in an apparent attempt to overcome long development cycles.
Link Space is working toward a 2022 first flight of a reusable rocket intended to place 180-kg payloads in Sun-synchronous orbits for a price of 20 million yuan ($2.8 million).
The Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC) began assembling the first airframe in the MA700 turboprop airliner program Sept. 27, aiming for a first flight in 2020 and certification in 2022.
