I am still around orbiting Sol... just not transmitting much... I guess I can relate to Telstar1...

"On the morning of July 10, 1962, a NASA Thor Delta rocket launched into the upper atmosphere with the delicate Telstar satellite held in its nose and deposited it in an elliptical orbit at just under 6,000km (3,700mi) from earth (still 22,300 miles short of the as-yet-unnamed Clarke Belt)."

"Despite its fried transistors, Telstar still orbits the earth today, and it will continue to do so for the next 200 years when its orbit will decay as it succumbs to earth’s gravity."

Found on https://medium.com/@words_etc/telstar-a-history-of-the-most-important-satellite-you-ve-never-heard-of-b10f81c2aed1