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After you create a ros publisher, it will take some time before the connections to all the subscribers are created. So when you publish a message right after you create the publisher, the message will not reach the subscribers. In your example, this is exactly what happens, when you create a new publisher in the first callback, and immediately publish a message. The second time you publish a message form the same callback, the connections are established and the messages will reach the subscribers.