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The get_entity_state service is provided by the libgazebo_ros_state.so plugin. Did you load that?

Here's an example on how to load it from your SDF world.

There isn't a way to load that plugin from a launch file yet, see this issue.

Here's more information on entity states on Gazebo + ROS 2.

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