As for our "orbit shortage," after with-drawing from the United Nations in 1971, the ROC lost its membership in the International Telecommunication Union the next year and in the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium the fifth year after that, thereby also losing its right to share synchronic orbits.
由於「一軌難求」，加上台灣在退出聯合國後的第二年（一九七二年）、第三年，陸續退出「國際電信聯盟」和「國際電信衛星組織」，原有的會員國名額由大陸取代，因此分享同步軌道的權利亦隨之喪失。