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As usual with data files,
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Skyfield will only download the file the first time you need it,
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then will keep using that same copy of the file that it finds on disk.
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Note that the international agencies responsible for the file’s distribution
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sometimes have trouble keeping their servers up.
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For example, as I write this in May of 2022,
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the file cannot be fetched from ``ftp.iers.org``
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because of an
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`Outage of iers.org data servers <https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/NewsMeetings/News/news_001.html>`_
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reported on their website.
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At
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`Skyfield issue #730 <https://github.com/skyfielders/python-skyfield/issues/730>`_
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and
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`Skyfield issue #732 <https://github.com/skyfielders/python-skyfield/issues/732>`_
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you can find links to alternative data sources
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which various Skyfield users have been able to access in the meantime.
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If your script will always have Internet access
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and you worry about the file falling out of date
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(and if you can trust the “modify time” file attribute on your filesystem),

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