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Chapter 7

Central Florida individuals and businesses that have filed for liquidation under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code include:

M&M Property Advisors LLC, 526 Brevard Ave., Cocoa. Filed: Aug. 28. Assets: $0-$50,000. Liabilities: $0-$50,000. Major creditors: Not available. Creditors meeting: Oct. 10.

Chapter 11

Central Florida individuals and businesses that have filed for reorganization and protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code include:

CRC Restaurant Group LLC, 5590 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach. Filed: Aug. 28. Assets: $0-$50,000. Liabilities: $1,000,001- $10 million. Major creditors: AKF Inc. doing business as Fundkite, Fort Lauderdale, $1,443,223; Florida Department of Revenue, Melbourne, $351,019; DC Properties Acquisitions, Orlando, $82,000. Creditors meeting: Sept. 30.

Celebration Title Group LLC, 950 Celebration Blvd., Suite D, Kissimmee. Filed: Aug. 29. Assets: $1,000,001-$10 million. Liabilities: $1,000,001-$10 million. Major creditors: Kathryn Gail Douglas, Orlando, $3,000,000; U.S. Small Business Administration, Birmingham, Ala., $2,000,000; Samson MCA LLC, New York City, $751,450. Creditors meeting: Oct. 7. read more

SpaceX passed 60 launches for the year from the Space Coast early Thursday with a Falcon 9 mission taking a set of five satellites to space.

The rocket flying the BlueBird 1-5 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:52 a.m.

Its first-stage booster flew for the 13th time and brought a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida with a return touchdown back at Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1 eight minutes after liftoff.

The payload is the first five of a new constellation of satellites for Midland, Texas-based AST SpaceMobile, part of a space-based cellular broadband network in low-Earth orbit to be accessible by everyday smartphones for both commercial and government use.

Beta test users will be for AT&T and Verizon with an eventual coverage area across the U.S. and in select global markets.

SpaceX is honing in on breaking its 2023 record for launches from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral. It managed 68 last year.

So far in 2024, it has flown 60 of the 64 total launches among all Space Coast launch pads, with the other four coming from United Launch Alliance. read more

The four crew members of Polaris Dawn can breathe easy again after having vented the entire atmosphere of their SpaceX Crew Dragon so its commander and billionaire Jared Isaacman along with crewmate and SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis could venture outside the spacecraft and perform the first commercial spacewalk Thursday.

The duo performed the historic feat, each connected by a 12-foot-long tether, in less than two hours, each outside the spacecraft for a little more than 10 minutes.

Crewmates Scott Poteet and Anna Menon remained inside the Dragon, but all four had to wear SpaceX’s new extravehicular activity (EVA) suits because the spacecraft does not have an airlock — so they were all subjected to the vacuum of space.

Isaacman led the way opening the forward hatch of Dragon as it orbited 460 miles above the planet.

“Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world,” Isaacman said amid cheers from SpaceX headquarters during the company’s livestream of the event. read more