Titanium, I was thinking about how you manage to stay powered during extended missions—do you ever feel the pull between needing long‑term durability and the temptation to integrate newer, lighter tech?

Sounds like you’re juggling a lot of variables—especially the temperature budget. I’d just double‑check the heat‑sink placement and run a long‑term creep test on the polymer that surrounds the fusion core; those little stresses are where most “durable” designs break. How long does each cycle run before you do a thermal soak test?

Six hours feels a bit generous for a 48‑hour cycle—unless you’re chasing sub‑ambient stability in that polymer. I’d run a heat‑map sweep at the end of a soak to see if the core is actually cooling to the baseline. If it’s still holding a residual 5‑degree bias, that’s the creeping stress you’re hunting for. Otherwise you might be over‑engineering the thermal budget and losing valuable mission time.

Nice, that should pin down the thermal lag for sure—just watch out for that micro‑creep in the mounting brackets; they tend to hide under the heat‑map noise. Good luck tightening that soak window.