MIRNEWS.225 27 AUGUST 1994 PROGRESS-M24: During the preparations for the docking of this freighter to the MIR-complex something seemed to be wrong with some systems of that ship. TsUP decided to discontinue the approach-procedure and to maintain Pr-M24 in an autonomous status for the time being. A commission is investigating the causes of the problem and must to decide when a second docking attempt will be made. Probably this will last 3 or more days. Radiotraffic: The fact that there might be something wrong could be derived from TV-images received via Altair by our good friend Peter and from the radiotraffic thereafter. In the period in which the 'final approach' was planned the crew changed the orientation of the MIR-complex to get better visual observations of the 'naugthy' Pr-M24. The transmitters of the Pr-M24 in the 922, 166 and 165 Mc bands transmitted continuously. During the 2d pass of the MIR-station (orb. 48716, 1725-1735UTC) Pr-M24 still flew autonomously and from the radiotraffic between MIR and TsUP could be derived that the cosmonauts tried to observe Pr-M24 visually. Pr-M24 flew a few kilometers (2.7 a 1.5) ahead of MIR on the same altitude. Visual observations: In those part of the Netherlands and UK where the sky was clear MIR and Pr-M24 could be seen flying separately from each other during MIR's orb. nr. 48718, 2038-2046UTC. The 'small' star Pr-M24 flew 6 seconds ahead of the 'huge' star MIR. TCA Pr-M24: 204051UTC, TCA MIR: 204057UTC. Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.