Alledged Satellites and Space Debris

“According to Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), which keeps a record of the operational satellites, there are 6,542 satellites, out of which 3,372 satellites are active and 3,170 satellites are inactive, as of January 2021.”
… Yet, in all the footage from “low earth orbit” and all the supposed “photographs” of earth from space – the thousands of satellites are never seen, let alone the heaps of space junk said to be in orbit with them.
Here is a website that provides an animation depicting what it would look like if these things were true:
https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization