Today at @SpaceFoundation’s #SpaceSymposium, #USSPACECOM deputy commander Lt. Gen. John Shaw participated in a panel on #PlanetaryDefense🌎 alongside leaders from @NASA, @esa, and @JHUAPL. #Thread🧵 2/ “#PlanetaryDefense is a team effort, a human effort, the biggest team we could possibly conceive.”

#USSPACECOM Chief of Staff, @usairforce Maj. Gen. Brook Leonard moderated a #SpaceSymposium panel comprised of the leadership from #USSPACECOM’s service components, the source from which combatant commands like #USSPACECOM receive forces and capabilities. #Thread🧵 1/ Alongside international partners and allies, #USSPACECOM promotes responsible behaviors in the space domain. Emphasizing the importance of these shared principles, Lt. Gen. Whiting, @ussfspoc commander, remarked: “how we act and operate reflects who we are and our values.” 🌎

Live @ACScowcroft: GEN James Dickinson, #USSPACECOM Cdr: It is important to understand that in the space domain, our pacing challenge remains China. China has developed and fielded #ASAT weapons as a way to erode the superiority of our space systems... Russia remains a persistent threat to our interests in space. Russia, like China, possesses sophisticated lasing and jamming capabilities, but most concerning is their development and testing of ground-based #ASAT weapons.

Live: #USSPACECOM Commander GEN James Dickinson @SASCDems @SASCGOP go.usa.gov/xzBpM "Today we are not only in full support of our joint forces globally & #NATO in Europe, but we remain hard at work building the command to our Full Operational Capability"

Lt Gen John Shaw, #USSPACECOM deputy cmdr, on @ascendspace's "Leveraging Our #Allies in National Security #Space" panel: It shows that all of our nations are continuing to focus more on more on #space & focusing on it together. #BetterTogether Shaw recognizes work of @18SPCS & American/allied #space professionals at Combined Force Space Component Command & Joint Task Force-Space Defense for their work in relation to this week's Russian #ASAT test. 🛰️ @UKTeamVandenbe1 #VandenbergSFB @psgarrison #SchrieverSFB

#USSPACECOM deputy cmdr, Lt Gen John Shaw at @ascendspace on Russian DA-ASAT test: We are still characterizing this event. We expect the debris will grow over time. #Perigee, #apogee event will widen. "It will become a threat that we will have to deal with." #ASAT #Russia Shaw: This isnt' the beginning of such activity. #Russia conducted a similar test in April, though it didn't target a #satellite. Russia is showing "disregard of the sustainability of #space."

Brig Gen Brook Leonard, #USSPACECOM chief of staff, is speaking right now at the #Space Power Forum presented by the Air Force Association’s @MitchellStudies. Leonard on #USSPACECOM & @SpaceForceDoD: Awesome to see the focus our nation has on increasing our #space capabilities, awareness & what we're able to do.

.@USArmy GEN James Dickinson, #USSPACECOM cmdr, at @ussfspoc establishment: Today, we formally establish what amounts to the biggest arrow in a quiver to protect & defend US/allied interests in #space. In days of 1st #USSPACECOM 30 yrs ago, we often spoke about warfighter support. Today, we are the warfighters. We have a task to perform traditional supporting functions AND supported warfighting mission.