[Raapys]

Check out all the tiny icons in the System View. One of them says 'Switch to sector view' or something. Basically, it's combat view without having a combat, and you can freely move units/ships around, positioning them for battle, setting up satellites, etc.

As it stands, you can actually use this to place your ships right beside enemy ships, if combat ended with both sides still in the sector. This wont be possible with the soon-to-come patch, though. Exploit, obviously, but necessary with the unlimited combat area, which will also be fixed in the patch.