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.
Chinese state space contractor CASC will lighten the first-stage motor of its Long March 11 launcher, increasing throw weight, and also seems to be planning a second and larger solid-propellant launcher.
Chinese space engineers see navigation and landing stability among their main challenges in preparing for an historic unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon that they plan for 2018.
