In order to realize the push-staring imaging with a certain overlap rate of the long-strip region along the track of plane array camera, a pendulum type searching imaging model was designed with a high resolution CMOS sensor. Based on the region division of the long-strip layer by layer and the construction of gradual change of imaging overlapping rate, the real-time push-staring pointing gesture of the statellite and the matching parameters of pendulum type searching imaging were calculated. Besides, a PD(Proportional and Derivative) controller with multiple small approaching was used to analyze the gesture control precision of searching imaging and image shift mismatch quantity. Finally, a ground geometric scaling simulation experiment of the long-strip pendulum type searching imaging of the system of P5 surface LED(Light Emitting Diode) targets was carried out through the CMOS(Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) principle prototype and the small satellite gesture control simulation platform. The results show that, the area of pendulum type searching imaging is larger about four times than that of the staring imaging when the inter frame overlap ratio is more than 85%. The gesture control accuracy is better than 0.05°, the gesture stability is better than 0.003°/s and the corresponding transfer function can reach up to 0.141 1 when the control frequency is 10 Hz.