So an NPR borders my home system, and has recently sent geo-survey ships in to scan the planets in my system. I thought this would be a good opportunity to attempt boarding and see what I could learn about it; while my drop ships are in no way meant for ship-to-ship boarding, I figured that because the surveyors were orbiting it would result in 0% losses. So, loading up some random (unfortunate) assault battalion, I initiated boarding action against a geo-survey ship in orbit of my home world. After the 30 or so seconds it took to confirm orders, the drop pods launched at the stationary vessel, only for every single soldier to end up dead, and not on the ship.
So do orbiting targets still keep their max speed, even they are listed to have no speed? I don't have the capability to make fast boarding ships yet, so I was hoping that I'd be able to drop a battalion or two onto a slow ship with 60 something crew just to see what happened.