>> those [that will fall harmlessly into open space] are ignored by the system
I wondered about that. If so it’s a pretty sophisticated system — with a lot of responsibility placed on its *correct* operation.
I hope IronDomeCo didn’t hire away too many Microsoft programmers to staff their engineering team. :-)
this, too, depends on the rocketeers using dumb rockets, that can’t significantly change course but which obey ballistic physics. once the rockets stop being dumb, then the dome has to shoot them all down.
i dunno what they use. might be real time linux.