Did you see how when the nosecone punched through that membrane, it wasn't exactly on a perfect tangent?

ZOMFG is there video? I must see this video.

the idea of an active, on-board attitude correction system capable of combating fluid turbulence at Mach 6 is just plain offensive.

On the plus side it would merely have to compensate for the Standing Wave Apocalypse so... I mean, from a systems standpoint it'd be entertaining at least. I'm picturing an arrayed assortment of tunable Helmholtz resonators running some truly wicked linear servos. thing would look like a tokomak that got away.

I'm still trying to figure out what problem SpinLaunch is the solution to. Are the carbon emissions generated in producing the electricity required to spin up the arm and payload substantially less than the first stage of a conventional rocket?

I'ma show you a picture

Long story short: Gerald Bull helped develop a "launch system" for the Air Force that was supposed to literally shoot things into space. Air Force decided not to take it across the finish line so Gerald Bull took his tech to Saddam Hussein 'cuz you know what? "Space" isn't nearly as interesting to shoot at as "Israel" so the Mossad capped his ass.

Basic problem with HARP (no, not HAARP, different conspiracy theories) is you can't make a barrel long enough to hit space. Turns out Gerald Bull was mostly interested in guns, not getting to space, but most people since then have been primarily interested in getting to space. So, I dunno, mid '60s the sci fi guys started saying "well what if you spin roundyroundyroundyroundyround until you're going hella fast and then let the fuck go?" Used to be you could find all sorts of cool '60s illustrations of massive 300km tracks in the Atacama desert with slopes pointing up the Andes and shit. The idea, basically, was you build yourself an accelerator not too different from CERN or the SSC or whatever except instead of atoms whooshing around it would be space capsules. The diameter would be determined by the amount of linear acceleration you could handle, the amount of centrifugal acceleration you could handle and how much you wanted to spend.

I maintain that Hyperloop is a trojan horse SpaceX project to replace the rockets with a centrifugal launch system. Best way to figure out what sorts of problems you get from going Mach 6 in a circle is to go Mach 1 in a circle, and the best way to figure out those problems is to go less than Mach 1 in a circle. That circle, though, doesn't fit under a tent.