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KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory vs N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory
Which cable & satellite data, delivered from every orbital position. data fits your job: KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory, or N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory
N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory | N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory |
|---|---|---|
Pos | documented | not in this set |
Satellite | documented | not in this set |
Frequency | documented | not in this set |
Pol | documented | not in this set |
Txp | documented | not in this set |
Coverage area | documented | not in this set |
Standard | documented | not in this set |
Modulation | documented | not in this set |
SR/FEC | documented | not in this set |
Network, Bitrate | documented | not in this set |
NID | documented | not in this set |
TID | documented | not in this set |
Coverage, side by side
| KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory | N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | Global satellite positions weighted to European, North African and Middle Eastern beams; channels attributed to 162 countries | Worldwide orbits; azimuth and elevation computed for whichever observer site you choose |
| Temporal | Current state plus a change log of additions, removals and parameter updates, with a Channel Cemetery of departed services | Live positions recomputed on demand; catalog spans objects from past launches to just-launched |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory | N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | KingOfSat | N2YO, computing from the Space Track catalog of the US Space Surveillance Network |
| Subject lens | Broadcast inventory: every channel and transponder per orbital position, with packages, encryption and reception detail | Fleet inventory: every cataloged object with a live state vector and observer-relative look angles |
| Geographic coverage | Global satellite positions weighted to European, North African and Middle Eastern beams; channels attributed to 162 countries | Worldwide orbits; azimuth and elevation computed for whichever observer site you choose |
| Temporal coverage | Current state plus a change log of additions, removals and parameter updates, with a Channel Cemetery of departed services | Live positions recomputed on demand; catalog spans objects from past launches to just-launched |
| Detail level | Two levels per position: per-transponder rows (frequency, polarization, standard, modulation, SR/FEC) over per-channel rows (packages, encryption, PIDs) | One telemetry row per object per observation instant |
| Dictionary size | 22 documented fields, verified during research | 14 documented fields, verified during research |
| Scale | 25,839 channels, roughly 15,051 frequencies, several hundred satellite positions as of 2026-08-21 | 35,103 tracked objects as of 21-Aug-2026 |
| Best for | Lineup audits, packaging and encryption analysis, tuning and link-budget work on European beams | Fleet studies, constellation growth, pass planning and real-time position lookups |
What each does better
KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory
Service-level depth no orbital catalog attempts. Beneath each transponder row sits the channel block: Name, Country, Category, Packages, Encryption, SID, VPID, audio PIDs, PMT and PCR. That is enough to rebuild a receiver's service list on paper - which mux carries the channel, how it is scrambled, which package ships it.
The commercial layer. Package assignments run to operators such as Sky Digital, BBC, Freesat and MTV Networks, categories span Entertainment, Sport, News and Religious, and channels are attributed to 162 countries - the raw material for lineup and competitive work across European, North African and Middle Eastern beams. See channel directory for how this class of record is used.
Memory. The main table holds current state, and around it runs a change log of additions, removals and parameter changes, including a Channel Cemetery of departed services. A lineup move leaves a trail instead of silently overwriting - the difference between a snapshot and a history.
N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory
Population. 35,103 cataloged objects as of 21 August 2026, against the several hundred orbital positions any channel directory covers. Fleet studies, constellation growth curves and launch-tempo questions need the full roster, not the broadcast subset.
Kinematics per instant. Every object page renders a fourteen-column telemetry table: local time and UTC, sub-satellite latitude and longitude, altitude in kilometers and miles, speed in km/s and mi/s, azimuth and elevation from the observer, right ascension, declination, local sidereal time and orbital period. Nothing in a channel dictionary approximates a state vector.
Observer-relative geometry. Because azimuth and elevation are computed for a chosen site, the same record answers dish pointing, ground-station visibility and real-time satellite tracking questions that a fixed footprint diagram cannot.
Browsing axes built for the fleet. Category views run from Starlink and GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BeiDou operational constellations to Military, Weather and Amateur radio; launch-date views surface a Just launched feed dominated by Starlink deployments; country and owner listings round it out. Underlying positions derive from the Space Track catalog of the US Space Surveillance Network.
Where they're equivalent
More than their shapes suggest. Both field dictionaries were verified during research - a bar worth noting in a slice where documentation depth drove the rankings. Both publish explicit, tabular structures rather than prose descriptions. Both are global in extent: KingOfSat lists channels attributed to 162 countries on positions spanning Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, N2YO spans the entire cataloged population regardless of owner or orbit. Both key every row to a named physical spacecraft, so either can be rolled up by satellite. And both cover their whole subject rather than a sample - every listed channel on one side, every tracked object on the other. Where equivalence ends is time and topic: one keeps a running change log of lineup moves, the other replaces its state vectors in place, continuously.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit - they are instruments pointed at opposite halves of the same satellites.
Take KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory if your question names programming, packaging or reception. Lineup audits against a bouquet, encryption and package mixes by market, category competition across beams, receiver tuning plans built from frequency, polarization, symbol rate and FEC. Accept the frame: nothing here flies - no positions, no velocities, no telemetry.
Take N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory if your question names the fleet. Constellation growth, launch tempo, pass planning for a ground station, where a given NORAD object is over the earth at this moment. Accept the frame: no channels, no transponders, no packages - the broadcast layer is invisible from orbit.
Sample both, pick by fit. See KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory · See N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory
Or take both in one feed
Yes - they stack because they occupy adjacent layers of one system. A defensible workflow: let N2YO define the orbital frame - which objects exist, where each is, how the population grows - then read KingOfSat underneath the communications satellites that actually broadcast, where frequencies, beams, packages and encryption turn a point in the sky into a deliverable service.
Three alignments decide whether the merge holds. First, keys: KingOfSat identifies craft by name and orbital position, N2YO by integer NORAD ID, so a satellite-name-to-NORAD crosswalk is mandatory - there is no shared identifier. Second, tempo: state vectors replace themselves continuously while lineups move through a dated change log, so any joined artifact should stamp which vintage of each it used. Third, units: megahertz, kS/s and FEC ratios on one side, degrees, kilometers and km/s on the other - complementary physics, not convertible ones. We handle all three in the merge, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Or take both in one feed. Browse the rest of the shelf at the cable & satellite data hub.
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Fair questions
Is KingOfSat European Satellite Zapping & Directory better than N2YO Live Real-Time Satellite Tracking Directory?
Better at different jobs. KingOfSat owns the broadcast layer: 25,839 channels across roughly 15,051 frequencies in 162 countries, with packages, encryption, categories and per-service PIDs behind every transponder row. N2YO owns the fleet itself: 35,103 tracked objects with live latitude, longitude, altitude, speed and look angles. One tells you what plays where; the other tells you what is overhead.
Do the two datasets cover the same satellites?
Only partly. N2YO tracks all 35,103 cataloged objects, including Starlink trains, GPS constellations and weather satellites that carry no television payload. KingOfSat covers the several hundred orbital positions that actually broadcast, listing their channels and transponders. The overlap is the communications satellites doing direct-to-home work - and even there, one describes services while the other describes trajectories.
Which field dictionary documents more fields?
KingOfSat, by eight: 22 documented fields against N2YO's 14, both verified during research. The gap is mostly service detail - SID, VPID, audio PIDs, PMT, PCR, packages, encryption, category and country - that an orbital tracker never carries. N2YO's fourteen spend on geometry instead: latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, azimuth, elevation, right ascension, declination and period.
Which dataset should a pay-TV lineup analyst sample first?
Start with KingOfSat: channel name, country, category, package assignments running to Sky Digital, BBC and Freesat, encryption systems, and a change log that records lineup moves rather than overwriting them. Then bring in N2YO when the question turns physical - whether the satellite serving a given beam is where the footprint diagram assumes it is, or how many broadcast-capable craft exist at all.
Can Datadory deliver both datasets together?
Yes - alone or merged onto one satellite list, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call. Each arrives normalized to its verified dictionary (22 documented fields on the KingOfSat side, 14 on the N2YO side) with sample rows for inspection before anything ships. The joining work is the satellite-name-to-NORAD-ID crosswalk, handled in the merge. Or take both in one feed.