PARIS — The launch of the two Swedish Prisma formation-flying satellites and the French Picard solar-science spacecraft aboard a Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket has been further delayed, to February, because of ongoing negotiations on rocket-debris cleanup between Russian launch authorities and the government of Uzbekistan, Swedish and French officials said.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.