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.
A fault in the third-stage attitude control system appears to have caused the failure of the initial launch attempt of China’s first privately developed orbital space launcher.
China’s Juneyao Airlines plans to begin intercontinental operations in June 2019 with a connection between Helsinki and the private carrier’s hometown, Shanghai.
