National audienceThis manuscript of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches deals with the guidance for spacecraft rendezvous. The orbital rendezvous consists in docking two spacecraft originating from their initial relative position and speed in free or fixed time. More generally, rendezvous guidance means computing all the maneuvers performed in the relative motion context. The relative motion describes the motion of a "chaser" spacecraft with thrust abilities in reference frame attached to the inert spacecraft in its orbit and called "target" spacecraft. The propulsion mode of the chaser being chemical, it is supposed to provide strong acceleration on small period of time with the respect to orbital period. These high thrusts allow a rapid...