Comment by usefulcat

This is fascinating, but I can’t believe he didn’t really address the elephant in the room (for me anyway). The instant the payload is launched, the launching mechanism will still be rotating at several hundred RPM but will no longer be balanced. I don’t see how it wouldn’t proceed to immediately and spectacularly tear itself apart. So they must have figured out how to rebalance it almost immediately. THAT is what I’d really like to hear about; that seems like the hardest aspect of the whole process.