FIELD: space engineering. SUBSTANCE: system has supporting subsystem for satellite location and spatial orientation using data coming from global locating system, on-board computer for analyzing and generating commands depending on location and orientation, orientation control subsystem for regulating space vehicle orientation in response to computer command, image shaping subsystem responding to computer commands for image shaping and data transmission, as well as ground image data receiver and final processing subsystem for merging image data, their coding, and assembling serial images into mosaic displaying the target. EFFECT: reduced distortion of target image. 6 cl, 4 dwg
