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jphamlore t1_j58wzfp wrote

Is Jupiter the limit for how far out a mission can go fueled by rocket fuel and solar panels?

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice_factsheet

> Spacecraft: Three-axis stabilised with 10 solar panels and a 2.5-metre-long High Gain Antenna, with a dry mass of approximately 2400 kg and a wet mass (including fuel) of approximately 6000 kg. Each solar panel measures about 2.5 m x 3.5 m; with five on each side of the spacecraft deployed as two distinctive cross-shaped arrays, these total an area of about 85 square metres>

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