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Flight delayed? Blame a spaceship.

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While these rockets typically only spend a few minutes in this airspace, they can create debris, like spent pieces of rocket hardware , either because they’re designed to shed their payloads in several stages or because the mission has failed. Reusable boosters used by some spacecraft, like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 , reenter this airspace, too.