Launch loop

Yes, it's more complicated, but the space elevator can't work right now- the engineering materials simply don't exist for that.

2000 km long is shorter than the cabling that makes up the golden gate bridge.

Nobody knows whether it works in practice, because nobody has seriously tried to build this. Yeah, that makes it harder, because there's no beaten path to follow. Then again, practically everything in this world is something hard that somebody managed to do.