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== Usage ==
The Heatsink Launcher can be used both in normal space and while in [[Supercruise]]. Heatsinks are most commonly used in connection with [[Silent Running]] or with larger ships dumping excess [[heat]] when making multiple hyperspace jumps or straying too close to a star while [[Fuel Scoop|fuel scooping]]. Heatsink Launchers are also important to prevent overheating caused by the use of [[Shield Cell Bank]]s or other high-heat modules and weapons. Additionally, deploying a heatsink partially replenishes the [[Power Distributor]]'s WEP (weapon) capacitor; each active heatsink provides 2.0MW0MJ/s of power to WEP, allowing more powerful weapons to be sustained for a short period of time. This effect stacks with multiple heatsinks.
Heatsink Launchers are installed on a ship's Utility Mount. Multiple launchers can be installed, but activating them will only ever fire a single heatsink from one launcher atper abutton timepress, even if all Heatsink Launchers are linked to the same fire group. Each launcher holds 3 heatsinks and each heatsink canwill holdabsorb approxapproximately 90-100% of the ship's maximum heat capacity. Heatsinks can be launched via a dedicated key bindingkeybind or the fire button of the fire group to which thetheir launcher is assigned. Hardpoints do not need to be deployed to launch a heatsink.
HeatsinksHeatsink Launchers are a ubiquitous module that can be purchased at most locations with [[Outfitting]] services. They can be restocked at [[Starport]]s, or via [[Synthesis#Heat Sink|Synthesis]].
== Specifications ==
==Sirius Heatsink Launcher==
AThe '''Sirius Heatsink Launcher''' is a [[Engineers#Pre-Engineered modules|pre-Engineered]] Heatsink Launcher with enhanced [[Ammo Capacity Heat Sink Launcher|Ammo Capacity]] namedengineering, "(Pre-Engineered) Heatsink Launcher"which can be purchasedacquired from the Human [[Technology Broker]]s atlocated theon Spirit[[megaship]]s ofowned Laelaps inby the V886[[Sirius Centauri systemCorporation]]. Unlocking it Unlikeon unlocking most otherthe Technology Broker items, which makes them permanently available for purchase with [[credits]] at station outfitting services, unlocking a Sirius Heatsink Launcherscreen immediately placesadds one module into local Outfitting storage at no additional cost. The module must alsocan be unlocked repeatedly in order to obtain multiple copies. Note that althoughWhile the includedpre-engineered modificationsmodification can be removed, [[Engineers]] cannot re-apply themthe same pre-engineered effect, or apply anyextra otherengineering modificationson totop theseof modulesthe pre-engineered effect.
Unlocking requires the following [[Materials]] and [[Commodities]]:
*8 [[Mechanical Scrap]]
*6 [[Niobium]]
*6 [[Vanadium]]
*5 [[Mechanical Components]]
======Specifications (compared to a regular Heatsink Launcher):======
===Specifications===
The following table shows the specifications of the Sirius Heatsink Launcher (differences over an unengineered Heatsink Launcher are indicated in brackets):
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!Ammo Maximum
|17.5 s (+75%)
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Note that the Sirius Heatsink Launcher is also significantly superior to an [[Ammo Capacity Heat Sink Launcher|Ammo Capacity]] engineered Heatsink Launcher. It adds two, rather than just one, round of ammo. Moreover, the Sirius Heatsink Launcher incurs none of the mass increase of the engineered Heatsink Launcher. The sole advantage of the engineered Heatsink Launcher is that it increases reload time only to 15 s, rather than 17.5 s.
Compared to an engineered [[Ammo Capacity Heat Sink Launcher]], the Sirius Heatsink Launcher adds 1 extra round of ammo but has an additional reload time of 2.5 s.
This is the most common item in the game. Most stations with outfitting have this item. Almost all if not all industrial stations have this item.(Not avaliable on console 3.8 anymore )
▲== Purchase=Unlock Locations ===
New location is V886 Centauri near Musashi station.
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! Megaship Name
! System
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| Chariot of Rhea
| Leesti
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| El Centinela Cadejo
| Arimpox
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| Kumiho Sky
| Andecavi
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| Spirit of Laelaps
| V886 Centauri
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| The Witness Odysseus
| Alioth
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