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The Outer Space Treaty and Its Unforeseen Gaps in Resource Governance
《外空条约》及其在资源治理中的未预见漏洞
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits national appropriation of celestial bodies but deliberately avoids defining 'appropriation' in commercial or extractive contexts.1967年《外空条约》禁止各国占有天体，但刻意未在商业或开采背景下界定‘占有’的含义。
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Its framers assumed state-led exploration, never anticipating private firms launching autonomous mining probes to asteroid belts by the 2020s.条约起草者设想的是国家主导的探索，从未预料到私营企业会在2020年代自主发射采矿探测器前往小行星带。
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The treaty bans sovereignty claims yet remains silent on whether processing lunar regolith into oxygen constitutes 'use' or de facto 'appropriation'.条约禁止主权主张，却未明确 lunar 表土加工制氧属于‘利用’还是事实上的‘占有’。
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National legislation like the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 exploits this ambiguity by granting property rights over extracted resources.美国《2015年商业航天发射竞争力法案》等国内立法利用这一模糊性，授予开采资源的财产权。
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Meanwhile, Luxembourg and the UAE have enacted parallel frameworks, creating jurisdictional fragmentation without multilateral coordination.与此同时，卢森堡和阿联酋出台了类似法规，造成管辖权碎片化，且缺乏多边协调。
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No existing mechanism adjudicates conflicting extraction licenses near Shackleton Crater, where water ice deposits attract multiple sovereign and corporate actors.目前尚无机制裁决 Shackleton 陨石坑附近相互冲突的开采许可——该区域因蕴藏水冰，吸引多个主权国家和企业参与。
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The treaty’s consensus-based amendment process has stalled for decades, leaving governance reactive rather than anticipatory.条约基于共识的修订程序已停滞数十年，致使治理始终被动应对，而非前瞻布局。
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Legal scholars increasingly argue that customary international law may crystallize around unilateral national claims unless counter-norms emerge rapidly.越来越多国际法学者指出，若无迅速形成的反向规范，习惯国际法可能围绕单边国家主张而固化。
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Proposed alternatives—such as a multilateral resource registry or UNESCO-style heritage zones—face geopolitical resistance from major spacefaring states.拟议替代方案——如多边资源登记制度或类 UNESCO 的遗产保护区——正遭遇主要航天国家的地缘政治抵制。
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Without binding rules, commercial activity risks triggering orbital debris cascades and irreversible environmental degradation on planetary surfaces.缺乏约束性规则，商业活动可能引发轨道碎片级联效应，并对行星表面造成不可逆的环境破坏。
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This regulatory vacuum reflects deeper tensions between technological acceleration and institutional inertia in global governance.这一监管真空折射出全球治理中技术加速与制度惰性之间的深层张力。
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Resolving it demands reframing space not as frontier but as a shared infrastructural domain requiring collective stewardship.解决之道在于重新定义太空：它不是边疆，而是需共同守护的共享基础设施领域。