Do you hide your ships and resources?

UncleanOne, perhaps I can clarify. She's talking about two different fleets. she transported resources to her ripper, and sometime after the fleet returned, it apparently flew back to the ripper by itself, as if she had created a delayed fleet sending script. As for the other "fleet", she had built a metal harvester, but noticed that her metal production hadn't gone up. I told her to look in resources, and it wasn't shown in the list of resource and energy production sources. I had her check her fleet sending page, but it wasn't in the list of ships on the planet either. It was when she scrolled down that she noticed it had moved to her ripper without her doing anything, and as she watched it started flying back to the planet it was built on. Sometime afterwards, it flew to the ripper AGAIN.

MadKat,
You need to approach the station in free flight. Send a small cargo ship into high orbit on defense order, then click the enter free flight button on the fleet sending page. Aim it at the station in local coords and have it fly to the station. Contact with the station will occur automatically once you get close enough.