Teory

I have been playing for a few days, and I have found it frustrating trying to juggle your fleet, especially if you have more then a few ships on the go. Here's the thing - I get it, I get that its early in development, and things are up and coming. When i'm moving to other sectors and I have 5 ships trailing me it would be nice if I didn't get "Ship2" has lost its path. Does anyone know the statistics behind this? Do ships just follow at their max velocity or do they boost when you boost? What's the distance when they loose your path? I'm thinking that it would be a great addition if you were at your space station you could control all your ships in different sectors when they implement the ship's continuing to work while your not in that sector. However it would be nice to know that ship would continue to follow on my path while I jump and look for better places to mine regardless if I am 2-3-4-5 sectors away. I get it if pirates intercept that's fine. Anyone have any tips around this or how are you controlling your fleets?