Guenrikh A. Avanesov the specialist in scientific space device engineering. ... At the beginning G. Avanesov participated in the development of TV systems for the Lunokhod-1 and Lunokhod-2 s/c. Later he headed works on creation of first in our country digital systems for the Earth remote sensing in the Space Research Institute. These systems operated onboard the aircrfat labs and "Meteor-Priroda" s/c for a long time. ... At that time the first CCD-based star trackers were created. ...