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by credit_guy 1480 days ago
Also the power. Juno does not have nuclear power, only solar panels. The Sun is quite dim at Jupiter’s distance.

From wikipedia:

    Power: 14 kW at Earth,435 W at Jupiter
Overall the strangth of the signal coming from a solar powered spacecraft in the outer Solar system should go down with the 4th power of the distance.