Heatsink Launcher

Purges ship's heat into a disposable sink block, which is then ejected. Requires ammunition.

— In-Game Description

The Heatsink Launcher is a utility module that can be used to temporarily reduce a ship's heat levels. When activated, all of a ship's internally stored heat is rapidly transferred into a heatsink, and then the heatsink itself is ejected from the ship.

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 scooping. Heatsink Launchers are also important to prevent overheating caused by the use of Shield Cell Banks or other high-heat modules and weapons. Additionally, deploying a heatsink partially replenishes the Power Distributor's WEP (weapon) capacitor; each active heatsink provides 2.0MJ/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 at a time, even if all Heatsink Launchers are linked to the same fire group. Each launcher holds 3 heatsinks and each heatsink can hold approx 90-100% of the ship's maximum heat capacity. Heatsinks can be launched via a dedicated key binding or the fire button of the fire group to which the launcher is assigned. Hardpoints do not need to be deployed to launch a heatsink.

Heatsinks can be restocked at Starports, or via Synthesis.

Specifications

Rating	Mass (T)	Integrity	Power Draw	Armour Penetration	Thermal Load	Ammo Clip Size	Ammo Maximum	Value (CR)
I	1.30	B	0.200	F	0	1	3	3,500

Engineer Modifications

The following modifications can be applied to this module by Engineers to enhance its abilities:

• Ammo capacity
• Lightweight
• Reinforced
• Shielded

Sirius Heatsink Launcher

The Sirius Heatsink Launcher is a pre-Engineered Heatsink Launcher with enhanced Ammo Capacity engineering, which can be acquired from Technology Brokers located on megaships owned by the Sirius Corporation. Unlocking it on the Technology Broker screen immediately adds one module to local Outfitting storage at no additional cost. The module can be unlocked repeatedly to obtain multiple copies. While the pre-engineered modification can be removed, Engineers cannot re-apply the same pre-engineered effect, or apply extra engineering on top of the pre-engineered effect.

Unlocking requires the following Materials and Commodities:

• 8 Mechanical Scrap
• 6 Niobium
• 6 Vanadium
• 5 Mechanical Components

Specifications

The following table shows the specifications of the Sirius Heatsink Launcher (differences over an unengineered Heatsink Launcher are indicated in brackets):

Ammo Maximum	Reload Time
5 (+2)	17.5 s (+75%)

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.

Unlock Locations

Megaship Name	System
Chariot of Rhea	Leesti
El Centinela Cadejo	Arimpox
Kumiho Sky	Andecavi
Spirit of Laelaps	V886 Centauri
The Witness Odysseus	Alioth

Purchase Locations

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 available on console 3.8 anymore)

New location is V886 Centauri near Musashi station.

Videos

• File:Torpedo Boat Anaconda

Gallery

• Heatsink Launcher concept art
  Heatsink Launcher concept art
• An ejected heatsink
  An ejected heatsink

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