If the main loop evaluation time in an Arduino sketch is slightly larger than the update rate of the sensor (BNO080), the sensor will not report any updates via SPI any more.
Not sure, whether this is a library problem or whether there is some internal (inside the BNO080) buffer overflow, which stops the sensor from working properly.
Problem was already submitted as issue in Github library: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_BN … -603773585
and seems to be similar to the following problem https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_BN … -603773585