Sputnik 1 falls out of orbit and burns up in 1958

On 4 January 1958, the first artificial earth satellite, the Russian Sputnik(companion) 1, fell out of orbit and burned up on re-entering earth's atmosphere.

Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.