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Summarize the problem:

I am trying to get a real visualization of LEO constellations. One constellation in particular is OneWeb. If I use spaceaware.io, the constellation looks as I expect, all of the orbital planes exist and look evenly spaced, but using https://satellitemap.space/oneweb.html there are orbital planes which are not uniform and some planes which are missing. The service would be terrible with outages all the time.  

Provide details and any research:

I've looked many places, read the faqs and cannot come to a conclusion of which visualization is accurate. One, "satellitemap.space" (related to space-track.org and NORAD?), I got the impression that the data was not being updated since 2023? The second is related to Celestrak, "spaceaware.io", makes more sense and if the constellation is as bad as missing planes, I'd think there would be a substantial push to fix it by world governments? There is too much money orbiting to allow it to continue.

Are either of these websites correct? If one is wrong, what is the reason? Old data?

Thank you for the help

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  • $\begingroup$ Welcome to Space StackExchange. As I read your post in the second paragraph you say "The second is related to Celestrak" though this seems not the order in your first paragraph. Could you check and correct if there is a typo? Quite separately, you might arouse more interest in responses if you can post a screenshot of each visualisation (making sure to label which is which!). Lastly, Celestrak also obtains its data from space-track.org so I suspect the difference could simply be that one website hasn't updated for a long time. $\endgroup$
    – Puffin
    Commented May 1 at 13:08

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