Hon. Peter J. Beshar

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Constellations - Explore Space Network Technologies with Industry Leaders · 237 - Is the Outer Space Treaty Built for Today's Space Race? · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

for navigation, position navigation and timing, and for so many other services.

Secretary Barbara Barrett of the Air Force used to say that civilians access space many times before their first cup of coffee in the morning.

And so if there was a blast...

You know, it would have a very significant impact, not simply on military capabilities, but just everybody in civilian society.

And so I think the government is very focused on trying to make sure that that scenario doesn't occur.

I think it's more trying to think as you look the road ahead, okay?

The space world has changed so profoundly as we've been speaking about.

So what are the right steps moving forward?

Initiatives like the Artemis Accords are an extremely sound effort to try to begin to flesh out what operational norms might actually look like.

And in the 60s and 70s, remember, it was the height of the Cold War and the height, particularly in the 60s, of the space race.

And yet the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union were able to negotiate not just space treaties, but also arms control treaties.

And there were a lot of very important arms control treaties, concepts like SALT II and

and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and the New START Treaty.

And those have all now expired, John.

And so the hope is, moving forward, that there really is an opportunity, even with complex geopolitical dynamics, to try to have the spacefaring nations of the world come together, and if not agree to a treaty,

with the help of the UN, at least try to agree to more norms of if your satellite runs out of fuel and you lose control of it, what's your obligation to promptly notify others so that they can take responsive actions to it?

That's where I hope that this will go.

And so, again, due regard feels pretty soft in some ways.

It can be interpreted in a host of different ways.

So it's one of those broad principles that the drafters in the 60s developed.

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