Author(s)

Haotian Pan, Yanqi Li, Haozhe Pan

Corresponding Author

Haotian Pan

ABSTRACT

With the rapid development of advanced space technology, asteroid mining has aroused growing attention worldwide. The potential harm of irrational allocation of space resources threatens every country globally, especially those with weak comprehensive national strength. A fragile country cannot defend its fundamental interests in space and is vulnerable to an irrational allocation of space resources. As a result, how to measure the fairness of asteroid mining, to develop a model to measure the fairness appears imminent. Our Country-Equity Coupling (CEC) Model provides a quantitative analysis of equity degrees for most countries in the world. It considers multiple aspects, including history, humanities, region, politics, economics, etc. First, after extensive research, we came up with five creative principles to measure equity in the world. At the same time, we select relevant indicators for each principle and propose formulas to quantify them. Since it is challenging to assign weight to each index according to experience, we propose a deprivation coefficient to measure the perception of distributive justice. With deprivation coefficients and indicators, it is not hard to build a model of world equity. Second, we imagined the future of asteroid mining. We think asteroid mining will have a wide range of applications in the future, most notably in the construction and repair of satellites. Based on the TOPSIS model, we designed relevant algorithms and finally visualized the impact of mining on global equity on a world map. Third, we extracted and quantified the two elements that considerably impact production and revenue, respectively. When comparing the weights of the elements with different values, we found that the results did not change significantly. The difference between the maximum and minimum values is only 16%.

KEYWORDS

Global Equity Indicators, Country-Equity Coupling, Topsis, Deprivation Coefficient