This chapter summarised the classical and innovative methods of protecting spacecraft or satellite components against small space debris. It also presented the detection and sensing methods proposed to monitor the impact and its characteristic. The FBG sensors are very promising to monitor the micrometeorites and small space debris starting from their impact and fast effect with the possibility of comparing the effect at long term after the impact which common sensors cannot perform.Their signal can be easily correlated with that given by other sensors, to measure, for example, the shock propagation speed within the target.
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