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 main engine of the forthcoming H3 Japanese space launcher has performed successfully in a series of hot-fire tests, with program engineers working toward a first flight in around three years.