Hi guys, today I will present to you my best SFS build so far! this is th"e "Apex Ultimatum Lander" which, as you could see in the title, it is designed for Superearths and earth sized worlds. It also doesn't land with parachutes, just uses engines to land on. I will use this for a future interstellar mission I am gonna do, which uses an currently WIP interstellar vehicle called "ISV Bellatrix X-88" I don't have too much progress on this one but I finished the lander, which took me an entire weekend, 8 hours of build in total. Hope you guys like it 
Here you can see a detailed view of the lander, it is a relatively tall, 120 ton, 2-staged lander with a deployable nosecone and retractable landing gear. Let me explain how it works.
the landing gear at the middle retracts via detatching, as it is a fairing, once the first stage depletes all of it's fuel, the nosecone separates and the interstage fairing detatches, revealing the second stage. The upper section of the lander is much more detailed than the lower. This was because I didn't have any ideas for extra detailing, but I think it looks fine like this.
The upper section was the part that took me the most time to make, it took me over 6-7 hours, especially the capsule, as the second stage took me only 3 hours approximately. The lander has over 384 parts which isn't that much compared to other very detailed builds. As the last thing I want to show you guys, the lander has been successfully tested on Venus in Realistic Mode!
the test was to prove if the lander could land on venus (without parachutes) and then get back to low venusian orbit, simulating a docking with a mothership in a near orbit. And it was successful! it could barely orbit venus (3.1% fuel left) but I'm pretty happy with this one. As the landing & ascent test was just to test if it can get back to orbit, I had to use no heat damage for descent, and then burned up the engines to land on.
Hope you guys liked my blueprint, I may put a sharing link soon in bp category, thanks for reading this! have a neat day
Here you can see a detailed view of the lander, it is a relatively tall, 120 ton, 2-staged lander with a deployable nosecone and retractable landing gear. Let me explain how it works.
the landing gear at the middle retracts via detatching, as it is a fairing, once the first stage depletes all of it's fuel, the nosecone separates and the interstage fairing detatches, revealing the second stage. The upper section of the lander is much more detailed than the lower. This was because I didn't have any ideas for extra detailing, but I think it looks fine like this.
The upper section was the part that took me the most time to make, it took me over 6-7 hours, especially the capsule, as the second stage took me only 3 hours approximately. The lander has over 384 parts which isn't that much compared to other very detailed builds. As the last thing I want to show you guys, the lander has been successfully tested on Venus in Realistic Mode!
Hope you guys liked my blueprint, I may put a sharing link soon in bp category, thanks for reading this! have a neat day
