The moon itself is 250,000 miles away, people fire lasers at the moon and time how long it takes for a return to happen. Globally, many people do it for Astronomy.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bouncing+lasers+off+the+moon%3F&ia=web

they fire radars at the moon and time how long it takes for the return to arrive back,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Radar+Imaging+of+the+Moon&ia=web

and they also fire directional radio antennas at the moon and detect the signal bounced back, from the other side of the world by pointing reception antennas to toward it.

This is regularly done, there are friendly contests worldwide to see if groups can cooperate and receive signals that way.

Amateur Radio People Bounce Radio Signals Off The Moon Since 1953:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bouncing+radio+waves+off+the+moon&ia=web