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.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
The dam holding back Chinese business aviation is breaking, giving manufacturers the hope of selling large volumes of aircraft in a market that has always had great potential but frustratingly little immediate value. The authorities are now accepting flight plans just 3 hr. before takeoff as a standard policy, whereas previously they often needed to receive them the day before.
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.
