Garuda.

About Garuda

GARUDA is a Nepalese sounding rocket. It is Nepal’s first rocket, designed and built by a team of Nepalese university students to compete in the Spaceport America Cup — the world’s largest student rocketry competition in 2021. This rocket was designed to reach 10,000 ft apogee carrying an experimental payload, marking as a foundational milestone in Nepal’s aerospace and rocket engineering history. The project brought together a team of engineers and undergrad students from several universities across Nepal. Participants were divided into specialized subsystems, allowing team members to gain hands-on experience with industry-standard aerospace practices.