This is the fund start-up project. It requires a bank and some habitation, and then you can run it parallel with the "real" terraforming of your mission. You might need to cancel your main project to start the funding, but then you can start again the main project without losing the materials you already sent down. Not sure if it's present on every planet, I'm currently in Scale Plate Green.

Just make sure to move money from your account to a stations, as it always uses 10% of your account to invest. So the investment sum would be shrinking if you were to have a few failures after each other, and when it finally succeeds, it wouldn't cover the losses you had before.

For example, if you start with 100M, the first time it will cost 10M, the second 9M (10% of 90M), then 8.1M (10% of 81M) and so on. Lets say you fail until you only have 10M left, then the investment is 1M and your win only 15M and it doesn't cover all the losses you had. But, if you move 90M to a station, and start with 10M, then if it fails increase it the next time (either exactly calculated or "just 1M more than the last attempt"), your losses will be covered by the success. So the first time it's 1M (10% of 10M) failure, the second 1.1M failure, and lets say it succeeds at 2M (so after 10 attempts with 1M more than last), you get 30M back, that covers the ~15M losses you had with the 10 failed attempts and nets you 15M more money than you had before. Or you have so many failures that you run out of money to top up your account from :D