There was a plan in ~2016 backed by Zuckerberg, Hawking and some entrepreneur but it didn't really get anywhere (in a literal sense). Research for it stopped in 2022 because of a "lack of funding".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerber...

I'm not sure we'd be capable of receiving any signal it sent back to us, would we?