President Trump on Friday launched his long-anticipated Space Force, establishing the first new military service in more than 70 years.

The branch — which will not put US combat troops into orbit, but instead organize space-based defense forces — will be administered for now by Air Force Space Command personnel, the Air Force Times reported.

Gen. John “Jay” Raymond will head the branch for now, Trump said at a signing ceremony at Joint Base Andrews on Friday.

A chief of space operations will later be confirmed by the Senate.

“It’s going to be really important that we get this right. A uniform, a patch, a song ― it gets to the culture of a service,” said Raymond, who is currently the head of Air Force Space Command and US Space Command.

“There’s a lot of work going on toward that end,” he told the Air Force Times.

“It’s going to take a long time to get to that point, but that’s not something we’re going to roll out on day one.”

The launch of Space Force will be funded by a first-year, $40 million budget, part of a $1.4 trillion government spending package that Trump signed into law on Friday.

The bill also reversed automatic spending cuts to other defense programs and earmarked funds for security on the US-Mexico border.

“Among grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital. And we’re leading, but we’re not leading by enough, and very shortly we’ll be leading by a lot,” Trump said Friday.

“Space is the world’s new war-fighting domain,” he added.

With Post Wires