Compressed air is hot, but the reason it makes a craft hot is that the air is touching the craft in a certain way. Is the difference that hearing due to compre

Compressed air is hot, but the reason it makes a craft hot is that the air is touching the craft in a certain way. Is the difference that hearing due to compression is a normal head-on collision, and heating via friction is a parallel "scratching" collision? If you dropped a cube from space, the heat would be on the front face due do battery from air particles, not on the sides?