In modeling and simulation of meteor burst communication system, concerning the problem of network delay caused by Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ), an estimation model of transmission delay based on HARQ was proposed. Firstly, in consideration of the network structure and channel characters in meteor burst communication, a network delay model was constructed by analyzing the theory of HARQ. Then, based on queuing theories, the improvement mechanism of HARQ was introduced to establish an estimation model of transmission delay of Type-Ⅰ HARQ and one of Type-Ⅱ HARQ. Finally, the simulation was realized to compare and analyze the transmission delay performance of two kinds of HARQ. When packet transmission accuracy or packet transmission time changes independently, the transmission delay of Type-Ⅱ HARQ is less than that of Type-Ⅰ HARQ. The experimential results show that Type-Ⅱ HARQ has advantages of network delay performance in meteor burst communication compared to Type-Ⅰ HARQ.