carry to

09:29 Jul 3, 2019 

what is suggested by the language used is what is meant.

the payload - a small probe - is supposed to travel far enough to get into orbit around the Moon, which is on average 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth.

the launching rocket is supposed to keep pushing/accelerating this probe until they get to 80.000 miles from Earth, where having reached a speed of over 23,000 miles an hour, they part company and the probe keeps moving by inertia to get near the Moon and in orbit around it.

The inertial movement of the probe starts AFTER reaching 80.000 miles distance from Earth.

BTW, there is no "IF" - I found and watched the movie. It starts by news about a fictitious probe "Pioneer" supposedly sent in November 1957 to orbit the Moon. IN reality there was a "Pioneer 0" probe sent by the United States Department of Defence on 17 August 1958 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes#1958–1960

09:51 Jul 2, 2019 

If this is a space vehicle, does the text not mean that the modules will travel for 80,000 on the basis of the momentum initially achieved?

07:26 Jun 30, 2019 

Thank you.

19:17 Jun 29, 2019 

This is clearly seriously defective EN, though your assumption is probably correct.
We would normally say it "has a range of X miles" — curiously enough, in FR that 'range' would be 'portée' — which is related to 'carry'! What you have here sounds like a poor machine back-translation from FR of a text that was originally translated from EN!