Blue Origin‘s New Glenn Mission 3 (NG-3) was supposed to mark another step forward for the company’s long-awaited entry into the commercial space launch market. Instead, the heavy-lift rocket’s third flight ended in a partial failure and, for now, a full stop. The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded the New Glenn vehicle from future missions following a “mishap” during Sunday’s launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida until an investigation into the incident can be completed.
The mission wasn’t a total loss. New Glenn’s reusable first-stage booster performed as expected and landed successfully. However, the upper stage failed at the job that mattered most for the mission: delivering its payload into the correct orbit.
That payload (the BlueBird 7 communications satellite for AST SpaceMobile, Blue Origin’s first commercial launch payload for a customer) was supposed to be deployed into a roughly 285-mile orbit. Instead, it reached only about 95 miles — far too low for the satellite’s boosters to keep it in orbit. BlueBird 7 will now be deorbited and destroyed during reentry.
Watch this: Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-3: Everything That Happened in 8 Minutes
The issue appears to trace back to the rocket’s upper stage. In a statement Monday, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said “one of the BE-3U engines didn’t produce sufficient thrust” during its second burn, a critical phase that’s needed to raise and circularize the orbit. Without it, the rocket didn’t have the energy to get the satellite where it needed to go.
The consequences of that shortfall begin with the FAA classifying the event as a “mishap,” which sounds innocuous, but automatically triggers a mandatory grounding of the New Glenn vehicle while a full safety review is conducted. Blue Origin will lead the investigation under FAA oversight, working to pinpoint the root cause and outline corrective actions.
Until the agency determines the issue poses no risk to public safety, New Glenn isn’t flying again. How long that process takes is uncertain and can vary wildly. The last time New Glenn was grounded, following a landing failure on its debut mission, it was unable to fly again for months.
The longer the rocket is grounded, the more friction this will apply to Blue Origin’s 2026 and 2027 plans. In the short term, ripples may delay the deployment of Amazon’s already-delayed satellite broadband network, which would rely in part on New Glenn. Further out, the company’s Blue Moon MK1 lander mission’s target may also be affected by how long New Glenn remains sidelined.
Then there’s the reputational hit. This was New Glenn’s first mission carrying a commercial customer payload, which would have been a key milestone for the heavy-lift rocket program. While AST SpaceMobile expects the cost of the satellite to be “recovered under the company’s insurance policy,” this is certainly egg on Blue Origin’s face and an opportunity for competitors like SpaceX to exploit.
AST SpaceMobile said in a statement issued Sunday evening that it expects to continue its plans to expand its satellite network with “an orbital launch every one to two months on average during 2026,” supported by agreements with multiple launch providers.
In this blog, We are going to learn about the architecture of Peoplesoft in detail. So without wasting our time, let’s get on with it.
PeopleSoft application operates under PeopleSoft Internet Architecture that needs various Hardware and Software components such as
Database server
Process Scheduler server
Application server
Web browsers
Web Servers
We need to understand the role of every component before deciding the configuration options that are most appropriate for the implementation.
The requests are sent by the web browser to the web server. The web server will pass the request to the application server, which will generate the SQL to be executed in the database.
The configuration of the PeopleSoft infrastructure is not only about enabling the deployment of Internet applications via a browser. PeopleSoft allows us to benefit from many of PeopleSoft’s Internet, intranet, and back-end solutions, that includes service-orientated architecture, Performance Monitor, Feeds Framework, PeopleSoft Interaction Hub, and Search Framework.
The database server hosts a database engine and PeopleSoft application database consisting of all PeopleTools application definitions, metadata, system tables, application data, and application tables. The database server manages the connections of the application server, the connections of the development environment, and the batch programs executing against it at the same time. The PeopleSoft database is the repository of all the information that the PeopleSoft application manages. PeopleSoft application data and metadata are stored and kept up to date within the database. Application Designer is the primary tool in the development environment, allowing us to define, edit and manage this metadata that the system uses to control the execution architecture. This metadata collection specifies a PeopleSoft application.
Process Scheduler server:
PeopleSoft Process Scheduler environment is also called the “batch” environment. This is where most of the batch programs like Application Engine programs run, and that’s where you installed the COBOL and SQR executables. In a multi-server environment, we can choose where to find your Process Scheduler environment depending on server availability and performance requirements. Within the topology of PeopleSoft, Process Scheduler can be installed on a separate server, or it may be executed on the database server or application server.
Application server: It is the heart of PeopleSoft’s Internet architecture. The business logic is executed by the application server and SQL is submitted to the database server. The application server is made up of many PeopleSoft server processes that are grouped into domains. Every server process in a domain offers unique processing capabilities, allowing the application server to effectively respond to multiple transactional requests produced in the PeopleSoft architecture. Application servers need locally installed database connectivity software to keep SQL connected to RDBMS. You need to install the necessary connectivity software and related utilities for your RDBMS on any server where you plan to run the PeopleSoft application server.
Once an application server has established a database connection, any device which issues a transaction request across the application server benefits from the direct connection of the application server to the database.
Oracle Jolt and Tuxedo: PeopleSoft utilizes Oracle Tuxedo for managing transactions between the application server and the database. PeopleSoft uses Oracle Jolt to make it easier to communicate between PeopleSoft running on the webserver and Tuxedo running on the application server. Oracle Tuxedo and Jolt are mandatory components of PeopleSoft’s application server.
Domains: A domain is a set of supporting processes, server processes, and resource managers which allows the database connections necessary to meet application requests. Every domain is managed with a separate configuration file, and every application server domain is configured for connecting to a single database. One application server machine may support more than one application server domain executing on it. Using the psadmin utility, we can configure the application server domain.
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Peoplesoft server Processes: When we start an application server domain, it will start all the server processes related to this domain. Many server processes are executed in a domain. Every server process creates a permanent connection to a PeopleSoft database, which acts like a generic SQL pipeline which is used by server processes for sending and receiving SQL. Every server process utilizes its own unique SQL connection to make requests from several sources easier. From an RDBMS point of view, every server process in a domain represents a logged-on user.
Services: When a request is submitted to the application server by a PeopleSoft application, service name and a set of parameters are also submitted like MgrGetObject and also its parameters. The transaction request is queued by the Tuxedo to a particular server process which is designed to manage certain services. When the server process starts, it informs the system about the predefined services it manages.
Listeners, Handlers, and Queues: All these Listeners, Handlers, and Queues form the basis for the functionality of a domain. They receive requests, direct the requests, store the requests, follow-up requests, and respond to return requests.
Web Servers:
A Java-compatible web server is needed for extending the architecture of PeopleSoft to the Internet and intranet. When Peoplesoft Internet Architecture is installed on the webserver, a collection of Java servlets was designed to handle a wide variety of PeopleSoft transactions from the Internet or Intranet.
PeopleTools supports and offers the following standard web servers to be used in the PeopleSoft implementation:
IBM WebSphere
Oracle WebLogic
PeopleSoft Servlets
The following are the PeopleSoft servlets available on the webserver:
PSIGW:
Portal
PSEMHUB
PSINTERLINKS
Report Repository
Web browsers:
Peoplesoft Applications and administrative tools can be accessed by the supported Web browser. It is unnecessary to install any other software on the workstation that runs the browser, like the connectivity software or the downloaded applets.
PeopleSoft only sends the following elements to the browser:
As the browser only handles this core Internet content, the client workstation is not overloaded by an unnecessary processing responsibility. The entire process is performed at the server level.
In this blog, we have gone through the architecture of Peoplesoft and the components of Peoplesoft architecture. I hope you found this information useful.
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The requests are sent by the web browser to the web server. The web server will pass the request to the application server, which will generate the SQL to be executed in the database.
