The importance of space-borne wind lidar for the research of global meteorology and its recent development by NASA and ESA were describled. The Ocean Remote Sensing Institute of Ocean University of China (OUC) developed the Doppler Wind Lidar from a mobile system to airborne lidar system, and a simulation software system using LabVIEW for space-borne wind lidar was designed based on the iodine-filter or Febry-Perot filter. The simulation software is testified by the true wind data acquired by the mobile lidar from land-surface to 3 km and 3 km to 20 km respectively, the simulation results show that the requirement of a space-borne wind lidar is achieved after an accumulation of 1300 pulses.