Results of Recent Observations Made by 
"Solar X-ray Spectrometer (SOXS)" Mission

R. Jain (PRL) and PRL SOXS Team

	The "Solar X-ray Spectrometer (SOXS)" mission onboard GSAT-2
Indian spacecraft was launched successfully by GSLV-D2 rocket on 08 May
2003 to study the energy release and particle acceleration in solar
flares. We briefly present the scientific onjectives and instrumentation
of the SOXS mission. The SOXS is composed of two independent payloads viz. 
SOXS Low Energy Detector (SLD) payload, and SOXS High Energy Detector
(SHD) payload. We restrict our presentation to SLD payload that designed, 
developed and fabricated by Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in
collaboration with SAC, Ahmedabad and ISAC, Bangalore of Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO). The SLD has observed more than 100 flares in
last 9 months of its successful operation in geo-stationary orbit. We
present the results of these flares, and detailed study of a
few typical solar flares. We also present how SLD is a potential
instrument for the study of microlares.   
	The SLD provides new prospects for study of Fe line comelex
with improved resolution to understand the temperature and emission
measure characteristics of solar flares. We describe this aspect in some
detail in this presentation considering analysis of a few flares.