While evaluating plans for ROCSAT-2, the group decided that because synchronous satellites are vastly more complex than low-orbit satellites, and because it would be difficult to redirect the technical and human resources which were being built up through the ROCSAT-1 project, ROCSAT-2 would be redesignated as a low-orbit satellite.
二號衛星的計畫即經評估，認為同步衛星比低軌道衛星層次高太多，衛星一號好不容易建立的技術經驗與人力難以接續，又導回原方向，仍設定為低軌道衛星。