The commercial space industry was once dominated by three groups of companies: The United Launch Alliance (Lockheed and Boeing), Arianespace (Airbus and the French government) and International Launch Services (Lockheed plus Russian companies Khrunichev and Energia). Almost all space launches in the world rely on one of these groups. However, with SpaceX now successfully launching missions for NASA, these companies are starting to take notice. In order to compete, they've realized they need to up their game.