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The Outer Space Treaty Challenges: Revising Outdated 1967 Laws

By Jonathan Bala September 23, 2026 21 min read 32 views
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The Outer Space Treaty Challenges: Revising Outdated 1967 Laws
TL;DR

The Outer Space Treaty was written for a very different space age, but its central ideas have proved remarkably durable. The biggest weakness is not that the treaty failed to predict every modern technology. No treaty realistically could have predicted the exact commercial and technical landscape of 2026.