Hopefully we can play together as soon as possible... [Cole] is the kind of player I like to play with and the kind of player who can take the team to a higher level.

“I talked to a 93-year-old grandmother who never planned to go near the Internet in her life, ” Cole says.

But, he warns, the hard times are not over yet.

NASA spokesman Steve Cole said that was possible because the last track for the satellite included Canada, starting north of Seattle and then in a large arc north then south.

These figures should not be taken at face value, though, argues Tim Cole at University College London.