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In order to communicate with a small, distant object (say, for Earth to focus on Voyager or vice-versa), how precisely must angle be controlled? In other words -- is it important to be extremely precise in where we are pointing, or are we just blasting in the general direction?

by /u/thefourthchipmunk in /r/askscience

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