Temperature is a measurement of how hot your rocket is. The temperature can change depending on the environment.
The temperature scale used is Celsius (°C).
Temperature scales[]
- At 0°C, the rocket is at its lowest temperature (or ambient temperature).
- At 1°C, a heating effect will appear on the rocket. A temperature indicator will appear on the screen.
- At around 150°C, burn marks will start to appear on the rocket.
- At 300°C, parts will have received their melting point, and will then melt beyond that temperature.
- 1600°C is the average temperature of a Mars atmospheric entry.
- 2700°C is the average temperature of a reentry on Earth.
- 5000+°C is the average temperature of a Venus atmospheric entry.
- At 6000°C, heat shields will have reached their own melting point. Beyond that point they will melt.
Temperature indicator[]
If a part is heated up, an indicator will appear above the fuel indicator. This will tell how hot that said part is. If the bar gets full, that means the part has reached its own maximum temperature that it can withstand. Then it will detach form the rocket and disappear.
Sources of heating[]
There are some sources of heating.
Atmospheric entry heat[]
This will devastate any rocket passing through an atmosphere without a heat shield. If you survive these circumstances, burn marks will appear on your rocket, depending upon the intensity.
Engine flames[]
Any part that comes through an engine flame will be destroyed quickly.
Max Q[]
In Max Q, heating effects are only not that significant as in atmospheric entry. The rocket will likely survive this phenomenon and have few or no burn marks at all.
Typically, temperatures range from 5 to 75 ˚C, depending on how aerodynamic and how fast the rocket is going.
Moving fast in an atmosphere[]
When moving fast in an atmosphere, the atmosphere will slow down the rocket, and heating effects will be present. The rocket may be destroyed if moving faster in the atmosphere. This depends on atmospheric pressure and velocity. On Venus, this has more of an effect.
Burn marks[]
Burn marks will appear on a rocket when a rocket experiences heat. They are black in color and they are the most intense at the heating source. They can point in different directions depending where the heat passed through the rocket. Burn marks will appear when the source of heat wanes. If the burn marks are more opaque, the source of heat must have been intense.
Burn marks will only appear after heating effects and not engine flames.
Trivia[]
- This feature was added in 1.5.3, the burn mark sneak peeks were revealed earlier in 2021.
- The No Heat Damage cheat will disable parts breaking up in an atmosphere.
- The No Burn Marks cheat will disable parts having burn marks