Non-geostationary satellite communications network architectures with mesh network edge data centers

An edge micro data center for a communications network, comprising:

• an antenna subsystem to communicate with a satellite network, the antenna subsystem including at least one antenna and an antenna controller to control beamforming of the at least one antenna;
• wherein the antenna controller is configured to preemptively switch from communicating with a first satellite in the satellite network to a second satellite in the satellite network in response to a forecasted weather-based disruption;
• a terrestrial network interface to facilitate a mesh network with other local edge micro data centers;
• a radio access network (RAN) controller to control radio communications with end-user devices in an open radio access network (O-RAN);
• a multi-access edge computing (MEC) controller to:
• implement adaptive mesh management of distributed compute resources and storage resources of the edge micro data center in the mesh network of edge micro data centers connected via the terrestrial network interface, and
• implement virtual network routing to manage virtual networks that include end-user devices connected to the RAN controller;
• and
• a control interface to receive command and control instructions via the satellite network to modify the implementation of the adaptive mesh management and virtual network routing of the MEC controller.