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Never too early to start planning.

Though you have to come up with a way to deal with the chicken and the egg
problem.

One way could be to have one parent company with the overall goal, set up
two sub companies to deal with each part of the problem.

Company 1 designs and builds the launch systems - say a Sea Dragon type -
500 tons to orbit.

Company 2 designs and builds the SPS.

Target investors for each company individually who would be interested in
that area (some may be interested in both).

Point out that the launch systems will have a ready made market for
Company 1.
For Company 2 point out that there will be adequate launch facilities. At
a cost which should be able to be fairly reliably worked out, given that
you know how many launches you need and company 1 will be able to provide
the cost to build for x number of launches.

Note company 1 does not build man rated systems only the delivery vehicle.
So you would either have to have another company to build a man rated
vehicle on a small scale that is just a bus, or you contract it out to
someone else.

Once you start lifting 500 tons per shot, no doubt a few people will be
interested in building a bus to get people up there.

having the ready made market for the launch system will allow it to prove
itself, and get people thinking of what they can do with all that launch
space.

Just an idea.
Brett

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