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 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been unable to assess the condition of its Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite, despite briefly receiving signals from one of five pieces into which the spacecraft has broken after an apparent onboard failure of some kind.
China is likely to begin fixed-wing naval operations in the Indian Ocean once it commissions its second aircraft carrier, currently under construction at Dalian, according to a Japanese research report on Chinese military power.
Assembly of the first MRJ regional jets for delivery to customers will begin in the second half of this year, said Mitsubishi Aircraft, which added that meeting the initial production target will require full use of the plant’s capacity.
