Abstract: The development of optimal impulse rendezvous is reviewed in this paper. The optimal impulse rendezvous based on the criterion of impulse modifying, Lambert optimal rendezvous, the optimal impulse rendezvous solved by numerical methods and the optimal impulse rendezvous based on the theory of optimal rendezvous between neighboring circular orbits are introduced. And then the characters of these optimal impulse rendezvous are analyzed.

Key words: optimal rendezvous, criterion of impulse modifying, Lambert rendezvous, optimal rendezvous between neighboring circular orbits