QuickCheck: Is the world's first communications satellite still in orbit?

THE world we live in today depends on man-made satellites; from long distance video meetups and phone calls to watching football games at a mamak eatery, a communications satellite is involved at some point.

As such it goes without saying that we've come a long way from the launch of the very first communications satellite in July 1962 and since then, it's been claimed repeatedly that this satellite – Telstar 1 – is still floating in Earth orbit to this very day.