in boy scouts they do it all the time.
for the pioneering merit badge they demonstrate starting a campfire using a 9 v battery and steel wool.
works very fast.
Who's talking about launches. I was talking about the real things - bombs.
When I was 14 I built the strongest bombs of all my friends. We used an abandoned military training area to add a few craters. My biggest one was 15m diameter and 3m deep.
I don't know if you're talking about fahrenheit or celsius... if it's fahrenheit, I have no idea how hot that is but according to a page I just found on google, match heads ignite at approximately 80 degrees celsius; I don't know about the reliability of that source, but it sounds feasible. Don't forget that match heads are explosive and have low activation energy, hence why you ignite them simply by the force of friction.
The igniters themselves have a thick coating of a match like substance. There is a very fine wire between the two leads with the coating covering all of it. The wire gets hot enough to ignite the coating, which will then ignite the matches.
That was proved in the USA back a decade or two. Boys made a multi-stage rocket using milk cans filled with 5,000 match heads. When they touched the rocket off one of them lost his life.