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A radical suggestion admittedly:
Orbital rockets are now easy.
http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2015/0 … -easy.html
It comes from the fact that SpaceX made a high performance *pressure fed* upper stage for the Falcon 1. Pressure fed engines and rockets are much easier and cheaper to make than pump fed ones. Indeed many amateurs have produced their own, visible on the net.
Building a multistage rocket based on the F1 upper stage can give a low cost orbital rocket. And any competent engineering department should be able to reverse engineer the F1 upper stage.
But even that is unnecessary. NASA's Project Morpheus has done all the essential development for a methane version. NASA's technology transfer program would allow this tech to used for commercial and research concerns.
Bob Clark
Old Space rule of acquisition (with a nod to Star Trek - the Next Generation):
“Anything worth doing is worth doing for a billion dollars.”
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