Here are the top 10 satellites that have gone the furthest distance from Earth, based on the information available to me:
1. Voyager 1 - Launched
in 1977, it has traveled more than 14 billion miles (22.5 billion kilometers)
from Earth and is currently in interstellar space.
2. Voyager 2 - Also
launched in 1977, it has traveled more than 11 billion miles (18 billion
kilometers) from Earth and is also in interstellar space.
3. Pioneer 10 - Launched
in 1972, it traveled more than 7.5 billion miles (12 billion kilometers) from
Earth before losing contact in 2003.
4. Pioneer 11 - Launched
in 1973, it traveled more than 7.3 billion miles (11.7 billion kilometers) from
Earth before losing contact in 1995.
5. New Horizons -
Launched in 2006, it has traveled more than 4.4 billion miles (7 billion kilometers)
from Earth and recently flew past Pluto.
6. Cassini-Huygens -
Launched in 1997, it traveled more than 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion
kilometers) from Earth before its mission ended in 2017.
7. Rosetta - Launched in
2004, it traveled more than 3.5 billion miles (5.7 billion kilometers) to
rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
8. Juno - Launched in
2011, it has traveled more than 1.9 billion miles (3.1 billion kilometers) to
study Jupiter.
9. Dawn - Launched in
2007, it traveled more than 3.1 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) to study
the asteroids Vesta and Ceres.
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