Just a day after revealing its shiny new engine, the BE-4, Blue Origin is showing off its latest rocket in a new video. Set to inspiring music and full of glistening graphics, the animated New Glenn rocket wiggles its landing fins before lifting off. In space, the payload and second stage separate from the main booster, and the latter falls back to Earth, firing its thrusters for a gentle landing on … a platform in the sea.

Although Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket beat SpaceX's Falcon 9 in traveling to space and returning for a vertical landing on solid ground, SpaceX has already mastered the art of sea landings, which are more difficult.

Sea landings make it a lot easier to reuse rockets, because about half of all launches end up flying over the ocean. You can either expend a lot of (heavy, expensive-to-launch) fuel returning the booster to land, or you can bring the landing platform to the booster, as SpaceX does with its drone ships.