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 second version of China’s Long March 5 rocket, intended for building the country’s planned space station, will fly in mid-2019, a year later than planned.
BEIJING—HNA Group Chairman Chen Feng met with Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) officials in late January to assure the agency that HNA’s financial troubles were not affecting the group’s airline operations, an industry source said.
China will conduct five missions with Long March 11 solid-propellant launchers this year, confirming the fast-response rocket is finally regarded as mature.
