LOR mission

I am having huge issues with this mission. for some reason when i dock to the LOR platform, and attempt to cruise it out of there by remote, it undocks the tug and leaves me behind, i try to hurry and pursue it and formate, or follow it, but one of two things happen, either it gets stuck at the speed it was right before cruise, or its too fast and i lose it and it never shows up at the League waypoint.

has anyone ever heard of this? its pretty frustrating to play this mission over and over.

EDIT: (this forum wont let me edit my own post)

i forgot to add that i tried just letting it run its course with me in pursuit mode and it flying at half stuck cruise, but it was moving only about 750 m/s so that would take way too long for the mission to be over with.