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Essentially every stacking program have options to reject outlier pixels, such as the satellites. Hell even just averaging the pixels in an image stack without the outlier rejection would greatly diminish the streaks.
It looks like they stacked the images by taking the maximum pixel values; any other method should've produced much fainter or nonexistent trails. A good way to show just how many satellites there are, but not a realistic depiction of their effect on astrophotography.