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Usually it’s accomplished with gyroscopes, not RCS fuels. It has a schedule where it auto-orients itself to point back toward Earth, that next scheduled self-fix is in October.
As for how it knows what exact point to look at, I’m not sure! Maybe we’re constantly streaming a radio signal for it to see