When the Explore command completes immediately...

[LameFox]

Does it mean the ship knows there's nothing new (like stations) in the radius, without having to check? Or does that command only worry about removing map-shroud and never work in that spot again?

[Ezarkal]

From personal experience, it seems to work around the map-shroud. Asking ships to explore the same spot again a few hours later never worked for me.

[LameFox]

Ah, that's unfortunate. I probably don't need it for regular stations since I can just use move orders, but it would have been nice for respawning Kha'ak structures that appear in weirder places.