sentences:  Since the retirement of GOES-12 on 16 August 2013, the GOES-South station has been unoccupied.GOES-16 has since made the need for a dedicated GOES-South satellite obsolete; as of 2019, the satellite produces full disk images every 10 minutes.In September 2006, NOAA reduced the planned number of GOES-R satellites from four to two because of cost overrun concerns.