For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit. Trump's executive order calls for the Pentagon to come up with a design architecture, requirements, and an implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield within 60 days.

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

Trump's order establishing an Iron Dome for America includes a wider focus to defend the homeland from air and missile attacks from peer adversaries.

Donald Trump is busy planning American defense from hostile nations for the near future, and has already issued an executive order to build an Iron Dome to defend the United States border regions from enemy missile incursions.

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White House referred to as the “Iron Dome for America” after Israel’s missile defense system.