diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6dc420b..2ff66e2 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # rsi (development version)
 
+* `get_stac_data()` no longer fails if downloading an asset fails, but instead
+  returns a raster with all available data. This may still fail when a single 
+  asset fails to download while downloading multiple assets combined within a 
+  single raster; please open an issue if this happens to you! Thanks to 
+  @laurenkwick in #74 (#75).
+
 # rsi 0.2.1
 
 * `calculate_indices()` gains several new arguments:
diff --git a/R/download.R b/R/download.R
index 45a83c9..b9cf139 100644
--- a/R/download.R
+++ b/R/download.R
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ rsi_download_rasters <- function(items,
                   "Failed to download {items$features[[which_item]]$id %||% 'UNKNOWN'} from {items$features[[which_item]]$properties$datetime %||% 'UNKNOWN'}" # nolint
                 )
               )
-              download_locations[which_item, ] <- NA
+              download_locations[which_item, ] <<- NA
             }
           )
         },
@@ -138,7 +138,13 @@ rsi_download_rasters <- function(items,
       )
     }
   )
-  as.data.frame(as.list(stats::na.omit(download_locations)))
+  out <- stats::na.omit(download_locations)
+  if (!is.null(na.action(out))) {
+    na_attr <- na.action(out)
+  }
+  out <- as.data.frame(as.list(out))
+  attr(out, "na.action") <- na_attr
+  out
 }
 
 maybe_sign_items <- function(items, sign_function) {
diff --git a/R/get_stac_data.R b/R/get_stac_data.R
index e1ede88..85b1a11 100644
--- a/R/get_stac_data.R
+++ b/R/get_stac_data.R
@@ -364,6 +364,9 @@ get_stac_data <- function(aoi,
     gdal_config_options = gdal_config_options,
     ...
   )
+  if (!is.null(na.action(download_results))) {
+    items$features[na.action(download_results)] <- NULL
+  }
   # mask
   if (!is.null(mask_band)) {
     download_results <- rsi_apply_masks(