The constellation of 66 active satellites has 6 orbital planes spaced 30 degrees apart, with 11 satellites in each plane (not counting spares). The original concept was to have 77 satellites, which is where the name Iridium came from, being the element with the atomic number 77 and the satellites evoking the Bohr model image of electrons orbiting around the Earth as its nucleus. (The element with the atomic number 66 is dysprosium.) This reduced set of 6 planes is sufficient to cover the entire Earth's surface at every moment.
Spare satellites are usually held in a 414 mi (666 km) storage orbit.
666 used twice. Sometimes coincidence happens just because and sometimes coincidence happens on purpose.
Iridium is a very rare substance on earth, but it can supposedly be found within asteroids in relatively large quantities. Iridium is what makes a layer within the geologic column called the KT Boundary so interesting. The KT Boundary is an iridium rich band of soil found all over the earth. It marks the transition from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary period circa 65 million years ago (according to mainstream science). It also marks what scientist believe to be the impact of a very large asteroid or comet in the Yucatan that may have sealed the fate of the dinosaurs.
The meaning of the Iridium network took a turn for me when I looked up the etymology of the word iridium:
iridium (n.)
1804, Modern Latin, coined by its discoverer, English chemist Smithson Tennant (1761-1815) from Greek iris (genitive iridos) "rainbow;" so called for "the striking variety of colours which it gives while dissolving in marine acid" [Tennant] source
Iridium means "rainbow."
In the film "Thor," Thor discusses the rainbow bridge with a young scientist named Jane:
Thor: What you seek, it’s a bridge.
Jane Foster: Like, like an Einstein-Rosen Bridge?
Thor: More like a Rainbow Bridge.
Jane Foster: God, I hope you’re not crazy.
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The rainbow bridge in Thor is also called the Bifrost:
In Norse mythology, Bifröst is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. source
Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse Miðgarðr; Old English Middangeard, Swedish Midgård, Old Saxon Middilgard, Old High German Mittilagart, Gothic Midjun-gards; literally "middle enclosure") is the name for the world (in the sense of oikoumene) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology. source
The rainbow bridge is a star gate between "Heaven" and earth.
Here are a few screen shots of the Bifrost from the film, Thor:
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Rainbow bridge entering the Bifrost device
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Heimdall, the Bifrost guardian, activating the device
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Entrance to the wormhole created by the Bifrost
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| Thor and friends exiting the wormhole riding upon a stream of light |
The etymology for Heimdall is not exactly certain, but ambiguous sources claim that the name could mean "the one who illuminates the world." Sounds a lot like Lucifer. It also sounds like the Sun aka Ra and Osiris (Oz Iris - The Wizard of Oz who lives somewhere over the Rainbow + the word iris which we learned above is Greek for rainbow).
In The Emerging Church we discovered that the mother of the New Age movement, Alice Bailey, believed there to be a gateway of sorts between this world and the spiritual world. Here she states that science will one day bridge the gap:
The veil of the temple which divides the physical plane from the unseen world will be recognized as a fact in nature by the scientist. Its purpose will be acknowledged. Eventually it will be destroyed by man discovering how to penetrate it. The date is imminent. source: Alice Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 1957
I believe that this activity of "bridging the gap" has been going on for a long time. It goes by names like psychic warfare, remote viewing. It is the militarization of astral projection.