The budget version of $ 716 billion has already been approved by both chambers and should now be approved by President Donald Trump.
The sensors will enter service until 2022 to monitor certain parts of the world and specific countries, for example Iran and North Korea, according to the portal.
In the past decades, the United States has developed the Strategic Defense Initiative, informally known as Star Wars, and announced in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan. The program aimed to ensure US supremacy in space by installing space weapons capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.
Commenting on the approval of the new US defense budget, the Russian foreign ministry said a military confrontation in space could be as dangerous as the nuclear arms race.
