In keeping with the spirit of the voxel sandbox, I'd like the programming to be a fairly low-level thing. Simple like a cube or half-cube is simple. I'd wager there are a lot of programmers playing star-made, and we can make and share subroutines to make the process simpler for the rest. Let me ask enough questions about my environment and I can write a routine to approach and plot a nice circular orbit around a planet. Then I could share my routine like I share my ships. Now anyone can incorporate my routines to navigate and orbit by having their dave interface with the navigation station and invoking the following to travel to sector 5,7,9 and orbit the planet there at a distance of 600M.
ship.orbit(600,5,7,9)