In view of the effect of different prograde and retrograde rendezvous modes on miss distance， the vehicle terminal guidance rendezvous process is modeled and analyzed based on the theory of adjoint method. The original model of the terminal guidance problem is established， and the adjoint model of the problem is established based on the adjoint method. Normalized analytical expressions for the influence of factors such as target maneuver and initial heading error on miss distance were obtained. Based on the above theoretical analysis， the characteristics of reverse orbit head-on rendezvous， pursuit following orbit rendezvous and forward following orbit rendezvous are summarized.