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The tf system is a distributed system. It takes time to initialize the communications and communicate information across the network.

If you look at all the tutorials, they always are written in a way to be robust to a missing transform and just retry on the next cycle: tf2 Listener Tutorial

As @osilva mentioned if you're doing a onetime operation you can consider using waitForTransform tf and time tutorial to wait for data to arrive.