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.
TSUKUBA, Japan — Testing of Japan’s LE-X rocket engine technology demonstration program should be complete this month, with enough information already gathered to confirm that the country can use the simple and reliable expander-bleed operation mode for its next space launcher.
