Probably already suggested, but it would be nice if you could select ships from the sector view. This would make exploring with probes or just general ship management a little bit quicker.

I also noticed a few mentions of giving waypoints to probes. Or just some way to automate their exploration. I don't think they should have a total "Auto-Explore" mode like automated workers in Civ, but at least a way to queue up 5-10 sectors at a time.